BUNKER OIL Standard grades of bunker fuel oil and Diesel oil are available to vessels at six wharves on the Schuylkill River below Passyunk Avenue Bridge in Philadelphia. Three of the wharves are operated by the Atlantic Refining Co., two by the Gulf Oil Corporation, and one by the Standard Oil Co. of Pennsylvania. The Atlantic Refining Co. also operates four towed barges and the Gulf Oil Corporation operates three towed barges by means of which vessels can be bunkered at any location on the Delaware River and its tributaries. Each of the barges has a bunkering rate of 1,000 barrels per hour and the seven barges have a combined carrying capacity of 44,500 barrels. The bunkering plant of the Atlantic Refining Co. consists of Ballast Wharf Berth 4 and Ballast Wharf Berths 1 and 2 on the right bank of the river and the Atlantic Wharf on the left bank. Normal stocks of 75,000 barrels of No. 5, 300,000 barrels of Bunker C, and 30,000 barrels of Diesel oil are maintained at this plant. The bunkering facilities of the Gulf Oil Corporation are located near the mouth of the river below Penrose Ferry Bridge. The grades in stock are Bunker C, light Diesel, and heavy Diesel fuel oils and the normal stocks are 100,000, 100,000, and 15,000 barrels, respectively. The Standard Oil Co. Wharf is located at the foot of Powers Lane, between Penrose Ferry Bridge and Passyunk Avenue Bridge. A normal supply of 7,000 barrels of fuel oil No. 5 and 28,000 barrels of light Diesel oil is kept on hand. Depths in the berthing areas at all of the oil bunkering wharves are 30 feet or over. Further details of the oil bunkering wharves in Philadelphia are given in the following table. Other oil bunkering facilities in the Delaware River area, including the plant of the Cities Service Oil Co. on Petty Island in Camden, N. J., and facilities at Marcus Hook, Pa., and Paulsboro, N. J., are also shown in the table following. PORT AND HARBOR FACILITIES PIERS, WHARVES, AND DOCKS The water front of the port of Philadelphia extends along the right shore of the Delaware River from a point near the lower end of Hog Island on the south to the mouth of Poquessing Creek on the north and includes both shores of the Schuylkill River from its mouth to Fairmoun Dam, a total midchannel distance of 31.5 miles. There are 174 piers, wharves, and docks along the water front but the principal port activities are conducted in the section of the Delaware River about 9 miles long between Greenwich Point and Bridesburg, and at the terminals along the shores of the Schuylkill River. The piers and wharves are of varying types although the majority of them are constructed of timber piles with timber subdecks at the low-water line, supporting either concrete or timber retaining walls and solid fill. Some of them have concrete, wood, or asphalt decks topping the fill. Delaware River below the mouth of Schuylkill River.--There are only 4 water front terminals between Hog Island and the mouth of the Schuylkill River, the Atlantic Refining Company's wharf for receiving crude oil being the only one used for commerce. The 950-foot ammunition pier owned by the City of Philadelphia was not in use at the time of this survey, and the remaining terminals consist of two mooring piers at the depot of the Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army. Schuylkill River.--The shores of the Schuylkill River have become the center of the petroleum industry at the port of Philadelphia. Twenty piers and wharves on the river are owned and controlled by and one additional facility is operated by the oil companies at the port. Vessels can secure bunker oil at 6 of the larger oil-handling terminals; 9 of them are used for receiving and one |